- Yemen: Houthis seize Perim Island, tighten grip on Bab el-Mandab area
Source: Siasat Daily [India]
“Yemen’s Houthis have seized Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandab Strait, tightening their grip on the strategic waterway, a local government official and eyewitnesses told AFP on Friday, September 11. Boats carrying armed Houthi fighters reached Perim, also known as Mayyun, after [Saudi puppet regime] forces withdrew from the island on Thursday, the official said. Reuters separately reported that Houthi forces had reached Dhubab, a coastal town on the strait directly opposite Perim, strengthening their position around the waterway. The advance follows the Houthis’ capture of the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday, September 10, as their forces pushed south along Yemen’s western coast towards Bab el-Mandab. Perim sits inside the strait and divides the waterway into two shipping channels.” (09/11/26)
https://www.siasat.com/houthis-seize-perim-island-tighten-grip-on-bab-el-mandab-area-3540353/
- SCOTUS blocks court order on GOP re-gerrymander of Missouri’s congressional districts
Source: The Hill
“The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked an order that told Missouri to keep implementing Republicans’ favored 7-1 congressional map, which sparked confusion about what boundaries would be used in the November election. By lifting that federal judge’s directive, it leaves in place a state court directive that tells elections officials to return to the existing map with a 6-2 split. The GOP had pushed for a pickup opportunity as part of the mid-decade redistricting war. Missouri state leaders have said reverting would cause chaos, as they already conducted their primaries using the new map. The Supreme Court did not publicly explain its decision, and no justice publicly noted a dissent.” (09/10/26)
- Drone strikes kill two in Russia; eight injured in Kyiv
Source: Reuters
“At least two people were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Tula region, while eight people were injured in Russian air strikes which caused a fire in a nine-storey apartment building in Kyiv on Friday morning, the authorities said. … Russia returned to its near-constant air attacks on Kyiv this week after a brief halt during the visit to Moscow and Kyiv of U.S. President Donald Trump’s negotiators seeking to end the war which the Kremlin started by invading Ukraine in 2022.” (09/11/26)
- India: BRICS pols gather in new Delhi as wars and rivalries strain the expanded bloc
Source: Associated Press
“Leaders of the BRICS nations will meet in New Delhi this weekend as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and U.S.-China tensions test the group’s ability to act together. Host India will seek to balance its ties with China and Russia against its growing partnerships with the United States and other Western powers. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are among the leaders expected to attend. BRICS is a grouping of major emerging markets and developing countries, named after an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It has expanded from its original membership to include 11 countries that together represent about half the world’s population and a large share of its energy, resources and economic output.” (09/11/26)
https://apnews.com/article/india-brics-russia-china-iran-wars-a79c5d6df774a9471743cef7d0080688
- Trump ally resigns from post leading inquiry into alleged conspiracy against president
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A longtime ally of Donald Trump resigned from his post leading a Department of Justice investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president. ‘Sometimes people want things done faster and that’s all you can do,’ Joe diGenova said on Thursday. He appeared to be referring to concerns among other Trump loyalists that the president’s retribution cases were not moving quickly enough. … DiGenova had previously asked the then US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to appoint him to the job and had openly and repeatedly claimed Trump was the victim of an intelligence community conspiracy. But five months later, no charges have been brought, and it remains unclear whether any will be, or what information has been gathered to support any basis for the idea of a plot against Trump by the government officials who investigated him.” (09/10/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/trump-ally-resigns-president-conspiracy-inquiry
- Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with United Arab Emirates over “provocative and hostile actions”
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Algeria decided to sever diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after what it described as the ‘exhaustion of all means to preserve bilateral ties’, Algerian state media said on Thursday. Algeria accused the UAE of ‘provocative and hostile acts’, without providing details in a statement released by the foreign ministry. … Shortly after Algeria’s announcement, Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said on X that diplomatic relations should be based on ‘rationality, communication and clarity of interests’, rather than ‘riddles and signals that require decoding’.” (09/10/26)
- CO: Denver regime sues to ban gang intimidation activities at voting sites
Source: The Hill
“The city of Denver filed a lawsuit Thursday to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from going to voting sites. The lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Secretary Markwayne Mullin argues that ordering federal officers to carry out detainments and serve warrants violated the ‘troops at polls’ law. The troops at polls law, established by Congress during the Civil War, imposed fines and potential jail time for federal officers who show up to ‘any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.'” (09/10/26)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6081890-denver-lawsuit-ice-polling-sites/
- US producer inflation tops expectations as energy costs jump amid Iran war
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“US wholesale inflation picked up more than expected in August, government data showed Thursday, driven by higher energy costs in the month – particularly for diesel – as the US war with Iran continued. Rising prices at the pump are squeezing US households and businesses weeks ahead of key midterm elections, pressuring President Donald Trump’s administration, as average diesel costs hit new highs. The Producer Price Index (PPI) was up 5.4 per cent year-on-year last month, the Department of Labour said. This was a significant acceleration from the 4.8 per cent rise in July and above the 5.3 per cent that economists expected in a consensus forecast published by MarketWatch.” (09/10/26)
- ICE gang moves hundreds of abductees from Washington concentration camp as it weighs facility’s future
Source: Seattle Times
“One August day, immigration officials boarded a shackled South King County man on a flight leaving Boeing Field. The Colombian immigrant had been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma and was suddenly told he was leaving. He was one of about 95 people U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put on the flight — part of an unprecedented wave of transfers from the local [concentration camp] to [concentration camps] out of state. … In one week alone at the end of August, authorities boarded roughly 400 people on ICE flights leaving Boeing Field, formally known as King County International Airport, according to passenger numbers counted by a recently hired county staffer monitoring such flights. … The increase in flights comes as the federal government is planning for the Tacoma [concentration camp’s] future. ICE’s contract with the GEO Group, a national corporation that owns and runs the [concentration camp], runs out in late October.” (09/10/26)
- Spain: Spy agency warned of plans to storm Ceuta before mass migrant crossing, documents show
Source: Reuters
“Spanish intelligence services warned their Moroccan counterparts and Madrid of migrants’ plans to storm Ceuta a day before more than 70,000 people crossed into Spain’s North African enclave, according to documents released by the government on Wednesday. In a July 29 note to the Moroccan intelligence agencies DGST and DGED, Spain’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Centre (CNI), warned of plans on social media platforms for migrants to enter Ceuta by scaling the border fence or swimming around it, taking advantage of Morocco’s annual Throne Day celebrations. On the same day, the CNI also warned the Spanish government’s representative in Ceuta of the plans, according to declassified WhatsApp messages. … The release of the documents is likely to intensify scrutiny of the operational decisions taken in the hours before the crossing and whether sufficient measures were put in place to prevent it.” (09/10/26)
- US Unemployment Claims Dip to 206,000 as Layoffs Continue to Remain Rare
Source: US News & World Report
“Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment claims last week as jobless claims remain at historically low levels and layoffs are still relatively rare. Filings for benefits dipped to 206,000 last week from a revised 207,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week volatility, also fell modestly to 206,000. Claims for jobless benefits are a proxy for layoffs, and economists watch them because they can be a sign of where the job market is headed. For the past year, claims have mostly stayed within a historically low range of 200,000 to 230,000 a week.” (09/10/260
- UK: England’s mayors to get power to impose tourist tax
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Mayors in England will be given the power to impose a new fee on visitors’ overnight stays, in a move the government says will mean more money can be invested into local areas. Under the plans, local leaders will be able to bring in an uncapped levy, dubbed a ‘tourist tax’, as a percentage of the cost of hotels, bed and breakfasts and other types of accommodation rather than a flat fee. Hospitality leaders have warned it will put jobs at risk and hit families in the pocket. But the government said it would protect budget holidays ‘by making sure low-cost accommodation always pays lowest levy’ and said the extra cash could be invested in high streets and local transport.” (09/10/26)
- UK: Rabbis back regime sanctions on Israeli squats in occupied West Bank
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Several leading British rabbis have backed the UK’s new sanctions on Israeli [squats], amid protests from prominent Jewish groups and leaders against the measures. A day after the sanctions were announced by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, senior Masorti rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg took to X to express his support for the sanctions. ‘What is taking place today in the West Bank is a Chillul HaShem, a violation of God’s name of the worst order. We cannot stay silent. This is terrible for Palestinian people who want to get on with their lives in peace. It is terrible for Israel,’ Wittenberg wrote on X. … Elsewhere, Rabbi Alexandra Wright of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London said that the ‘occupation and escalating violence are harming Palestinians and Israelis’. … Other rabbis who came out in support of the measures include Jeremy Gordon of the New London Synagogue, and Lev Taylor of Kingston Liberal Synagogue.” (09/10/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/british-rabbis-back-uk-sanctions-israeli-settlements
- CA: Accused election fraud kingpin snared for massive ballot harvesting scheme
Source: New York Post
“Federal agents on Thursday captured an accused election fraud ringleader who allegedly paid Skid Row homeless a few bucks each to sign California ballot petitions using the stolen identities of real voters. The FBI apprehended alleged election crook James Brass, a.k.a. ‘Lord,’ in Victorville, San Bernardino County, just before dawn. He allegedly ran his scheme through a small company he owns called Pinnacle Brass …. Also charged in the two-count indictment against Brass are two petition circulators who allegedly worked for him: Courtney Price, 49, of Jacksonville, Florida, and Jateisha Herron, 33, of Boron, California. … All three defendants are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit identity fraud in furtherance of a state felony. Brass and Price are charged with an additional count of identity fraud in furtherance of a state felony.” (09/10/26)
- Vance tries to walk back senile boss’s $5k bribe offer
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Vice-president JD Vance appeared to partially row back on Donald Trump’s outlandish claims that every adult citizen in the US would receive $5,000 if the Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections. … Vance, speaking after the president, suggested the so-called dividend payments would not go to the wealthy and that it could be paid for by US tariff revenues – though the suggested payment dwarfs what the US has taken in through the protectionist measures. Congress would need to approve or otherwise acquiesce to the payment. The sum would far exceed US tariff revenues even before the Supreme Court tossed much of the president’s tariff program last year.” (09/10/26)
- TSA gang weighs major change to frustrating airport “security” rule for travelers who pay “PreCheck” bribes
Source: Fox News
“Travelers could soon be allowed to bring full water bottles through some airport security checkpoints — a major shift from longstanding airport security restrictions. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is weighing whether to allow TSA PreCheck passengers to bring water bottles through security checkpoints, according to reports. The change would apply to a select number of airports across the United States. … TSA PreCheck, which allows eligible travelers to use expedited security lanes and typically keep their shoes, belts and light jackets on during screening, generally costs less than $100 for a five-year membership, according to the agency.” (09/10/260
- China’s car exports in first 8 months surpass 2025 total, as EV sales soar
Source: Seattle Times
“China’s passenger car exports in the first eight months of this year already surpassed last year’s total, an industry association said Thursday, though domestic sales continued to decline. Passenger car exports in August jumped 67.1% from the year before to around 890,000 units, driven by plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). China exported more than 6.2 million passenger vehicles in January-August. Exports of all types of vehicles totaled 7.1 million last year, CAAM data show, including about 6 million passenger vehicles. The world’s largest car exporter is on track to achieve 50% to 70% growth in full-year passenger vehicle exports, according to S&P Global Ratings.” (09/10/26)
- Twenty-five dead after fire on cargo ship in eastern China
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Twenty-five people have been killed in a fire on a foreign-flagged cargo ship docked at a port in eastern China, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Of the 42 people on board, 17 were were evacuated of which five are in hospital in stable condition, CCTV reports. The vessel was undergoing maintenance at a shipyard in the city of Qingdao when the blaze erupted at around 11:15 local time (03:15 GMT). It was put out just over three hours later, according to CCTV. Photos released by state media showed the vessel to be the Ocean Melody, a 190m (623ft) long Liberia-flagged carrier which arrived in Qingdao on 31 August, according to tracking site MarineTraffic.” (09/10/26)
- US regime publicly confesses to three more maritime murders
Source: United Press International
“The U.S. military has attacked another boat in the Caribbean, [murdering] three people, alleging the vessel was involved in narcotrafficking. The attack occurred Wednesday, the 69th publicly acknowledged strike in the Trump administration’s yearlong military campaign that has [murdered] at least 230 people whom the administration alleges were drug traffickers, though at least some of those [murdered] are believed to have been civilians. As is the case with such strikes, little information was made public by U.S. Southern Command, which conducted the strike, and described the boat as a ‘go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean.'” (09/10/26)
- Trump promises $500 Obamacare rebate checks for 1 million enrollees in 30 states
Source: SFGate
“The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to an estimated 1 million Affordable Care Act enrollees across 30 states, who the White House alleged were overcharged by the Biden administration for exchange fees. … Enrollees who can expect refunds are those who do not receive premium assistance. Critics called the move a ‘gimmick’ that doesn’t represent a plan for addressing soaring healthcare costs. Trump in his address accused former President Joe Biden’s administration of ‘gross mismanagement’ of ACA funds, without providing evidence, and said that the Biden administration collected user fees from insurance companies that consumers paid through higher premiums.” (09/10/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/trump-promises-500-obamacare-rebate-checks-for-22425627.php
- The “Trump Dividend” Is Just Another Proposed Tax Hike
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“So: Trump is offering to pay you $5,000 and jack your cost of living up, in return for which he’s demanding your vote and $5,000 plus interest. If that sounds like a good deal to you, you suck at math and you’re probably a member of the rapidly shrinking ‘MAGA’ base.” (09/10/26)
- Who’s Really Dodging the Tariffs?
Source: Independent Institute
by David J Hebert“Once again, Peter Navarro seeks to explain why tariffs have failed. Back in December, Navarro chastised America for expecting results ‘on a news cycle.’ We were told that all of the positive results were coming; we just hadn’t waited long enough and shame on us for expecting results prematurely. … Now, Navarro claims that the reason tariffs aren’t working is because of foreigners. Once again, Navarro has found yet another scapegoat. Unfortunately for him, this one also falls apart upon further scrutiny. Navarro claims that foreigners are reorganizing their shipping routes in order to avoid the tariff. But that assumes that they are the ones actually paying the tariffs. In February, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a report finding that Americans, whether they be importers or end consumers, paid 94 percent of the tariffs in the first eight months since Liberation Day and were still paying 86 percent.” (09/10/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/10/dodging-tariffs/
- Nationwide Immigration-Control Tyranny Will Become Permanent
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“There is one thing that every libertarian supporter of the decades-long, deadly, and destructive U.S. immigration-control system and the harsh and brutal immigration police state that comes with it should be fully aware of: the nationwide immigration police-state tyranny will become a permanent part of American life. That should especially matter to libertarians for one simple reason: libertarians want to live a life of freedom, but the problem that is an immigration police state is the opposite of freedom — a destroyer of freedom. It is impossible to have a genuinely free society and an immigration police state. One has to make a choice.” (09/10/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/09/10/nationwide-immigration-control-tyranny-will-become-permanent/
- Stay-at-Home Subsidies Won’t Produce a Baby Boom
Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas Savidge“Promising more benefits drives up our debt. Inflation and uncertainty are hard to square with hopes of ‘helping kids and families.'” (09/10/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/stay-at-home-subsidies-wont-produce-a-baby-boom/
- How to Lower the Odds of Russia–NATO War
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow“The Ukrainian imbroglio has now raged longer than the First World War and shows no sign of abating. Throughout the conflict, the Europeans and Americans have waged an increasingly bitter proxy war, sustaining Kiev’s defense and helping kill tens of thousands of Russian soldiers. Moscow appears to be intensifying its response, especially if it is responsible, as charged by Germany, for last month’s drone attack on Leipzig Airport. European policymakers are increasingly concerned about the potential for a broader conflict. … the allies—at least the U.S.—should step back, reducing their role in the conflict. Putin committed a great wrong against Ukraine, which warranted allied support for its survival. But NATO and especially America should avoid a broader military confrontation.” (09/10/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-to-lower-the-odds-of-russia-nato-war/
- Lone juror’s holdout in the Lindsay Clancy trial is a true act of courage
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine“‘He couldn’t get over the fact that Clancy viciously killed her children.’ Those are the words of one of the insufferably condescending female jurors from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial who have gone public with their disdain for the lone male juror who refused to go along with their not guilty verdict. Good for him. … Now that several of the jurors have come out and exposed themselves, we can see the immense pressure that the lone holdout juror was under day after day in that jury room, being harangued and browbeaten by women infuriated that he refused to be persuaded by their self-proclaimed superior wisdom.” (09/10/26)
- Political violence has become a twisted form of virtue signaling
Source: USA Today
by Jonathan Turley“Across the country, a chilling shift is occurring. Political violence has become a twisted form of virtue signaling. Mahatma Gandhi is out and Luigi Mangione is in. For an increasing number of young people, nothing signals your values like a willingness to kill others for them. For decades, being nonviolent has been the touchstone for many on the left. Something is changing. On my campus and others around the country, students are rationalizing violence and even idolizing assassins.” (09/10/26)
- Trump Floats Buying Votes to Secure House and Senate
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey“Anyone who thought Donald Trump was a fiscal conservative may want to reassess after his most recent promise he made during his Dallas trip earlier this week. At the September 9, 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, President Trump offered $5,000 to every adult American citizen if the Republicans keep power in the U.S. House and Senate from the November 2026 midterm elections. Trump’s promise, like many, lacks reality. He’s like every other politician buying votes, something Republicans accuse Democrats of doing frequently. And the math of his promise should scare all Americans, as Trump exposed his disdain for financial conservatism. With around 240 million adult American citizens, Trump’s ‘dividend’ would amount to around $1.2 trillion, when we are already running a deficit of TWO TRILLION DOLLARS a year.” (09/10/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/trump-floats-buying-votes-to-secure
- In Germany, a call to create “compelling vision” for democracy
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff“What just happened? As the Monitor’s Mark Sappenfield reported Tuesday, that’s what Germans are asking themselves after a far-right party won nearly 44% of the vote in a state election this week. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been viewed as an extremist threat to democracy by the government in Berlin, and a tacit ‘firewall’ among centrist parties has excluded it from local or regional governing coalitions. Yet, with its euroskeptic, anti-immigration platform, the AfD is now just three seats short of a governing majority in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and has 28% support among German voters nationally. The follow-up question for Germany, and Europe more broadly, is: What happens next? Or perhaps, what should happen next? The continued rise of right-wing populism across the 27-member European Union is placing new demands on traditional centrist and liberal political leaders.” (09/09/26)
- Australia’s top bureaucrats want protection from ‘harmful’ social media videos
Source: Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin“Many of the free speech fights today rest on the question: How do we protect kids online? But some of the battles over what can be said or shared on the internet are about protecting a remarkably less vulnerable — and significantly more powerful — group from so-called harm: public officials. One such case is in Australia, where top bureaucrat body the Secretaries Board is asking Parliament to cap politicians’ and parties’ ability to share and criticize clips of testimony from the very officials the board represents.” (09/10/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/australias-top-bureaucrats-want-protection
- “The Funniest Thing”: Academic Jokes About Celebrating the “Kirkiversary” by Assassinating Nick Shirley
Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley“Will Rogers once observed that ‘Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else’ No one ever personified Rogers’ rule as much as University of California, Irvine instructor Matt Goldman, who cracked everyone up this week by joking about celebrating the anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk by alluding to the possible assassination of independent journalist Nick Shirley. Today is the anniversary of the murder of Kirk. In anticipation, Goldman posted a picture of Shirley with the line ‘Someone can do the funniest thing just before the Kirkiversary’. It was a response to an Instagram post by the Harvard Republican Club promoting a speech by Shirley. Goldman reportedly has long found the deaths of disfavored people to be a real knee-slapper, allegedly mocking the deaths of Henry Kissinger and others. Indeed, Goldman takes Gallows humor to a particularly dark place in American politics.” (09/10/26)
- Congress, Conflict, and Compromise
Source: Law & Liberty
by James Wallner“Everyone with a plan to fix Congress wants to help it legislate again by making it easier for lawmakers to compromise. Some call for electing more moderates to serve in the House and Senate. And others want to empower party leaders to impose deadlines, block amendments, and limit debate. But they all share the same underlying goal: produce consensus before the conflict begins. The problem with this approach is that it doesn’t work. Agreement in the legislative process is not an input that lawmakers supply in advance. It is an output. And the process that makes it possible generates the conflict this approach tries to engineer away. Moderates are the driving force behind shutting deliberation down precisely because they don’t want to take votes/positions.” (09/10/26)
- Three Major Revelations About The Gaza Holocaust In The Israeli Press
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“The Israeli press has published three significant revelations about the Gaza holocaust, reporting (1) that Benjamin Netanyahu concealed advanced knowledge of the Hamas attack on October 7, (2) that Israel rejected a Hamas offer to release all civilian hostages immediately after October 7, and (3) that according to an IDF drone operator, the Israeli military was intentionally firing on civilians throughout Gaza during its operations in the Palestinian territory. The first two come from a Haaretz article titled ‘Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn’t Brief Israel’s Security Chiefs’, which was released ahead of an upcoming Haaretz book about the hostage standoff in Gaza. Haaretz describes a call between Netanyahu and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, citing three foreign senior sources.” (09/10/26)
- Court Packing Is a Bad Idea. But It’s Still Constitutional.
Source: Reason
by Damon Root“Article III, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution says that ‘the judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.’ The document says nothing about how many justices should actually sit on the Supreme Court, leaving that rather important decision entirely in the hands of Congress. For advocates of court packing, or court expansion, or whatever other label the idea of adding new justices to the Court might happen to be going by nowadays, this constitutional language is a very handy ally to call upon and legal authority to cite. Whether you are in favor of court packing, opposed to it, or simply agnostic about the concept, there is no doubt about its constitutionality.” (09/10/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/10/court-packing-is-a-bad-idea-but-its-still-constitutional/
- Legal legacy of 9/11 is a lack of accountability for the government
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Ben Wizner“Few who lived through the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, could have imagined that the next 25 years would pass without another large-scale attack on American soil. What was far more predictable and harmful, though, is the damage we’ve inflicted on ourselves and on the constitutional system of checks and balances meant to protect us and our democracy.” (09/10/26)
- The Enemy of My Enemy
Source: Consent Factory, Inc.
by CJ Hopkins“Chalk another one up for the ethno-nationalists! That’s right, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Alternativ für Deutschland party (AfD) won an election last Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt, one of Germany’s sixteen federal states …. Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency has designated them a ‘confirmed right-wing extremist endeavor,’ and the mainstream media have been calling them ‘Nazis.’ Which they are, kind of … or, okay, not literally. … People tend to refer to them as ‘Nazis’ … well, for a lot of reasons. For one thing, many of them are former neo-Nazis, or they attend meetings held by neo-Nazi groups, or they are otherwise friendly with actual neo-Nazis. Also, some of them spout Nazi slogans at their political rallies, or embed Nazi symbols in their campaign artwork … which, of course, is all in good fun.” (09/10/26)
https://consentfactory.org/2026/09/10/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-2/
- Protectionism or Expansionism: Trump’s Self-inflicted Dilemma
Source: Independent Institute
by Daniel Sánchez-Piñol“Protectionism or Expansionism: Trump’s Self-inflicted Dilemma.” (09/10/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/10/protectionism-trump-self-inflicted-dilemma/
- What Critics Keep Getting Wrong About Capitalism
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Vincent Geloso“There is nothing wrong with criticising capitalism, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman or classical liberalism. The problem is that much of the discussion does not pass even a modest ideological Turing test. An ideological Turing test asks whether one can state an opposing position so accurately that its proponents would recognise the argument as their own before one proceeds to criticise it. Here, too often, they would not.” (09/10/26)
https://fee.org/articles/what-critics-keep-getting-wrong-about-capitalism/
- The David Duke Standard; The Hasan Piker Exception
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder“Remember the media firestorm in 2016 when Donald Trump supposedly failed to denounce former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke? Trump, appearing on CNN, claimed he did not know enough about Duke to disavow him. Trump later blamed a faulty earpiece and repudiated Duke and the KKK. But the episode became Exhibit A for those who accused Trump of using racial ‘dog whistles’. Then-Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan declared, ‘If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry’. … Now consider the Democrat Party’s treatment of Hasan Piker, the socialist streamer who said, ‘America deserved 9/11.'” (09/10/26)
- Bessent and the Bonds
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman“Big talk, but he carries a very small stick.” (09/10/26)
- College Sports, LSU, and Judge Shopping: Anarcho-Tyranny Continues
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson“In a recent Mises article, Tho Bishop declared that the institution of college sports is currently under the grip of anarcho-tyranny, which he defined as ‘the state-driven phenomenon of criminalizing the enforcement of basic civic norms while increasingly restricting the liberties of law-abiding citizens.’ The latest outrage comes from Louisiana State University in which its enfant terrible football coach, Lane Kiffin, has done what he always has done: push the boundaries of the rules of college athletics well beyond where they should be.” (09/10/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/college-sports-lsu-and-judge-shopping-anarcho-tyranny-continues
- How realism gets the world profoundly wrong
Source: Washington Post
by Francis Fukuyama“There are in fact two types of realism, a ‘realism of means’ and a ‘realism of ends.’ … In the realism of ends, all states are said to pursue national interest, defined in terms of power and security. They may dress up this drive in the elevated language of democracy or human rights, but ultimately they all seek the same thing: maximization of their power. … I subscribe instead to a realism of means. I believe that liberal values and power shape the United States’ role in the world, while being realistic about both the extent to which the U.S. can prioritize democracy and the means by which such a goal could be achieved.” (09/10/26)
- When War Comes Home: A Constitutional Warning
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano‘A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of presidential overreach and the enduring wisdom of the Constitution’s separation of powers. It was unauthorized, unconstitutional, illegal, strategically incoherent and — by the standards by which wars must be judged — a geopolitical failure.” (09/10/26)
- The Economist Who Forgot Economics
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis“We need answers for a postindustrial society, but that does not mean we should abandon the fundamental tenets of the free market.” (09/10/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-economist-who-forgot-economics/
- The Iran war looms large as BRICS leaders gather in New Delhi
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Michael Corbin“The conflict has divided members of the bloc, but India is determined to find areas of cooperation.” (09/10/26)
- Trump Laughing All the Way to the Bank … at the End of the World
Source: Common Dreams
by Tom Engelhardt“Honestly, I don’t think we really get it yet. Let’s face it. It’s going to be hot, hot, hot. Or do I mean hotter, hotter, hotter, or even hottest, hottest, hottest, or someday, for all we know, beyond any words we might now have to describe it. Though it seldom seems that way in the daily news, we’re talking about a genuinely apocalyptic possibility. Give us human beings full credit. Somehow, we’ve managed to come up with not one but two distinctly apocalyptic ways to potentially destroy ourselves and this planet—one a relatively speedy way to go and the other already operating in world-destroying slow motion—and that, believe me, is no small thing. Here are just a few examples of that slow-motion version of our self-destruction on this increasingly extreme planet of… well, can I really say ‘ours’ anymore, or should I say theirs?” (09/10/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-profit-climate-crisis
- Abdul El-Sayed Has a Socialist Platform and a Capitalist Life
Source: The Daily Economy
by Richard Menger“Abdul El-Sayed and his wife prosper by treating their medical credentials as private goods. Now he campaigns against the system that made it possible.” (09/10/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/abdul-el-sayed-has-a-socialist-platform-and-a-capitalist-life/
- Top Signs You’re Heading for a Quagmire
Source: Foreign Policy
by Stephen M Walt“In a world where great-power competition is intensifying, a revealing test of foreign-policy acumen is a country’s ability to avoid costly conflicts or other endeavors that waste resources, divert attention, and ultimately leave them weaker rather than stronger. In other words: staying out of quagmires. Great powers are often happy to see their rivals stumble into strategic quicksand and may even try to encourage such developments, but wise leaders try to stay out of this kind of trouble. In recent decades, China has done a far better job of avoiding quagmires than either the United States or Russia.” (09/10/26)
- The Mass Party of the Future
Source: Liberal Currents
by Samantha Hancox-Li“Liberalism’s problem isn’t structural. Liberalism’s problem is that we got out-hustled.” (09/10/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-mass-party-of-the-future/
- Beware: Monetary Geniuses At Work
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Charles Goyette“In Washington DC, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant buffs his nail on his shirt as he intervenes in support of the Japanese yen. Well, Japan is the leading foreign creditor of Washington’s borrowing. It holds $1.2 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities, and a country like ours, the world’s largest debtor, depends on the kindness of foreign lenders. Any meaningful liquidation of those holding would be a market shock that would drive interest rates higher. So, Scott Bessent is protecting the strained Treasury market with clever currency machinations. The secretary, like the president he serves, must be a stable genius.” (09/10/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/beware-monetary-geniuses-at-work
- What Charlie Kirk sowed
Source: UnHerd
by Richard Hanania“Tragedy has a way of unifying movements. For the Right, no recent event seemed more likely to generate such a galvanizing effect than the assassination of Charlie Kirk exactly one year ago. Kirk was the most famous conservative activist in the country, and his killing — sudden, bloody, and splashed across social media — was an act of staggering evil. Here was a man, by all accounts a decent husband and father, engaging college students in patient dialog, only to have his arguments answered by bullets. Yet the event didn’t bring the American Right together. Rather, it triggered infighting that persists to this day. To understand why, we have to be willing to honestly reassess the legacy left behind by the departed. We must even speak ill of the dead (for if we don’t, as Christopher Hitchens asked, who will?).” (09/09/260
- The Feds Are Spying on Your Bank Account
Source: Reason
by Matthew Petti“While the Treasury forces money changers to report on suspected immigrants, Homeland Security is having police pull people over for suspicious transactions.” (09/09/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/09/the-feds-are-spying-on-your-bank-account/
- Mexican Cartel Drone Power Is Growing
Source: American Greatness
by Stephen Bryen“While much attention is given to Ukraine and Russia’s use of drones, just south of the United States, Mexico’s cartels are using drones in significant numbers, some of which surveil the United States and move drugs and cash across the border. They are also used to attack Mexican government and army organizations and competing cartels. According to one source, in 2025 the cartels flew more than 42,000 drones near the U.S. border. Around 1,000 drones each day try to cross the U.S. border, and most are not intercepted. Most of the drones used by the cartels are Chinese, and a large number have been modified either to carry explosives or drugs. The major source is the Chinese company DJI (Da Jiang Innovations), based in Shenzhen. It is the world’s biggest producer of drones, holding more than 80 percent of the world’s market.” (09/10/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/10/mexican-cartel-drone-power-is-growing/
- The Market Will Not Price In The Apocalypse
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman‘Because the end of the world cannot be hedged.” (09/09/26)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/the-market-will-not-price-in-the
- Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, What It Could Be
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Jillian C York & Eva Galperin“The term ‘digital sovereignty’ has become ubiquitous. European officials invoke it in debates about cloud infrastructure, AI, semiconductors, and platform regulation. Governments throughout the global majority use it to argue for greater control over data and communications infrastructure and boost their economies. Companies market ‘sovereign cloud’ products designed to reassure their customers that their information stays under local jurisdiction. But digital sovereignty could be something more: an opportunity for users around the world to build more resilient, open systems and the skills and infrastructure to maintain them.” (09/09/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/digital-sovereignty-what-it-what-it-could-be
- The Political Orphanage, 09/10/26
Source: The Political Orphanage
“How Do Other Countries do Healthcare?” (09/10/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/how-do-other-countries-do-healthcare
- Rising, 09/10/26
Source: The Hill
“Will AI kill all humans?!” (09/10/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6071503-rising-september-10-2026/
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/10/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Ansar Allah Captures Red Sea Port City of Mocha, US Ramps Up Support for Saudis, and More.” (09/11/26)
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 09/10/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“A Bribery Bidding War: Can Democrats Offer $6,000 Checks If They Win?” (09/10/26)
- Zitelmann on Hitler’s Economics
Source: Bet On It
“After my series on the Nazi economy, I [Bryan Caplan] discovered the work of independent scholar Rainer Zitelmann. He’s had an amazing career in Germany doing two things I greatly admire: making lots of money in real estate, and judiciously assessing the Nazis’ degree of commitment to socialism. In this interview, Zitelmann weighs in on ‘What Hitler really thought about economics,’ carefully distinguishing Hitler’s somewhat protean public persona from his sincere long-run vision for the German economy.” (09/10/26)
- The Daily, 09/10/26
Source: New York Times
“Trump’s War on Mail-In Voting.” (09/10/26)
- Underthrow Podcast, 09/10/26
Source: Underthrow
“Mamdami’s groceries will eat New York.” (09/10/26)
- Matt Hoh on The Kyle Anzalone Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“JD Vance and Ben Shapiro Attempt to Sell Israel’s War to the American People.” (09/10/26)
- TAC Right Now, 09/10/26
Source: The American Conservative
“Germany’s Real Right Rocks Europe, w/ Filip Gaspar.” (09/10/26)
- The Blessings of Liberty with Jeffrey Rosen, 09/10/26
Source: The Blessings of Liberty with Jeffrey Rosen
“Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment.” (09/10/26)
https://rosenjeffrey.substack.com/p/emancipation-war-the-fall-of-slavery
- Advisory Opinions, 09/10/26
Source: The Dispatch
‘Insular Cases | Interview: Chief Judge Jeff Sutton and Neil Weare.” (09/10/26)
- Libertarian Angle, 09/10/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Historical Chaos in Monetary Theory.” (09/10/26)
- The Tom Woods Show, episode 2794
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“He Went to the Places the State Department Says Will Kill You.” (09/10/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2794-he-went-to-the-places-the-state-department-says-will-kill-you/
- Fountainhead Forum, episode 485
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Panel discussion in honor of Brian Doherty.” (09/09/26)
https://rumble.com/v7fasoe-ff-485-tribute-panel-for-brian-doherty.html
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/09/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Pakistan May Launch Airstrikes in Yemen, Trump Threatens More Attacks on Iranian Tankers, and More.” (09/09/26)
- Kibbe on Liberty, episode 485
Source: Free the People
“Libertarians Are Avenging Massie | Guest: Jeremy Todd.” (09/09/26)
- LPA Two Hour Lunch Hour, episode 10
Source: LP Alliance
“Join us for our anything goes podcast every Wednesday at noon eastern!” (09/09/26)
- The Kyle Anzalone Show, 09/09/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“America’s Iran War Is Unraveling — Is Ukraine the Next Domino?” (09/09/26)
- So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 09/09/26
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“What’s the First Amendment’s original meaning? w/ Jud Campbell and Stephen Solomon.” (09/09/26)
- Reason Interview: Jon Ronson
Source: Reason
“Why So Many Men Feel Lost.” (09/09/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/09/09/why-so-many-men-feel-lost/